"Jim" wrote:

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:"William Black" wrote in message
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: "Jim" wrote in message
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: On my Visit to Ireland I came to the understanding from talking to
: Irishmen
: that the majority of "Irish" would perfer the British left...
: The Irish I talked with made it clear there was 1 Ireland and the only
: reason there is a notheren is a minority of Irishmen (ulsters??) wish
:the
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: I imagine something similar gets said in Iraq as well.
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:However Ireland has been occupied and held since 1172 or there abouts the
:south release in the 1920's

I think that's wrong. I didn't think they actually took over Ireland
until Liz I.

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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed
and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks
that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has
nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more
important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature,
and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the
exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill